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The San Diego Padres Vice President of Scouting and Player Development, Grady Fuson is in town with the Wizards this weekend. The News-Sentinel’s Nick West caught up with Fuson and talked about this seasons standouts, recent draft picks, the rehabs of former number one picks Matt Bush and Nick Schmidt and a host of other topics.

A great read. Definitely check it out.

From Nick West of The News-Sentinel:

Midwest League president George Spelius was in town on Thursday evening to take in the baseball game between the Beloit Snappers and Fort Wayne Wizards. Spelius travels throughout the league during the season and joked about always being in Fort Wayne when the Three Rivers Festival’s Midway carnival is set up in the Memorial Coliseum’s parking lot.

Double hip replacement has kept Spelius away from a full league tour the past two seasons, and he said this is the first time since the surgeries that he’s been able to visit the entire league.

Spelius talked about the Fort Wayne baseball franchise’s new downtown ballpark.

“I think that new stadium is just a great thing for Fort Wayne because it’s really going to help the downtown area,” he said. “The city fathers and many other people that have supported this are going to be very happy with the outcome of having a stadium in the downtown area.”

Spelius also talked about the possibility of the Midwest League expanding from 14 to 16 teams. The Lake County Captains, the Class-A affiliate of the Cleveland Indians, have been a possible 15th addition since 2002, but the problem has been in finding a 16th team for even scheduling.

“We were told at the All-Star break there was a possibility that maybe … we had some kind of bead on it,” he said. “We may have a 16th team. We’ll wait and see what decision we have to make if it comes at all.”